Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve Limited Edition No 1 Oak Aged Ale Single Malt

Brewed by Fuller’s
Style: English Strong Ale
London, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

Bottle at Chriso’s Fullers-Gales Tasting. It pours hazy amber, with a thin off-white head. The nose is sulphur, syrupy sweetness, gingerbread, touch of fruit and some alcohol. The taste is over-baked cake, spice, wood, caramel, tangy citrus, some whisky and metal. Full body and moderate carbonation. Balance seems off to me. Not great.

Touch hazy brown tawny colour. Nose is marmalade, sherry, citrous notes, sweet malty sugary. Taste is marmalade, touch of treacle, tangy fruit, but there’s a dry woodiness in this that isn’t all that great. Also dry on the finish. Not sure this is ageing very well.

I love smoke beers. This one has a thick beige head and a red-orange color. Not so much smoke aroma as the german smoke beers but sweet citrus aroma. The taste also has some caramell and some fruit that is balanced by a litle tart bríttish hop bitterness. Much sweetness and big body.

(Bottle 20/01-2012) Low off-white head, clear brown color, complex vanilla wood aroma, medium co2, slightly smoked sweet taste. BB date End 2011, bottle #04298.

Bottle alone @ home plus one shared at GBBF. Pours dark amber with sweet and alcoholic whisky nose with rich malt body, finishing with whisky warrmth

500 ml bottle. BB end of 2011. Bottle N° 04827. Finland.
Murky reddish brown colour with big creamy off-white head. Mild sourness, caramel sweetness, woody whiskey and mild bitterness in aroma. Flavour is complex. Sweet caramel, whiskey, vanilla sweetness, mild malt and sugar in flavour. Mild bitterness in aftertaste. Alcohol also quite present but in good way.

Bottle from Superbest. Amber colour with a white head. Aroma and flavour of malt, whiskey, hops and spice.

500ml bottle (Alko Arkadia, Helsinki)
Mellow sweet woody bitter aroma. A touch buttery. Gently hoppy bite. Lovely smooth palate, woody but sweet too. Classic aged fullers taste. Woody and malty, and so darn mellow. Not saying whisky so much, but there is a gentle warming vapour in the mouth. Great beer.
Rating from the soured cask at EBF2008 has been scrapped completely as it was not as the brewer intended.